Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-23
How Every Man in the End Comes to
Be Valued at lust What He is
Worth and No More.
The Bible and The Church Character
lied as Great Picture Galleries
Filled With Masterpieces.
gcsffolds of mertyrdom the Stairs by Which
Ihs Church Has Assembled Through
out Al Ages
Special to the Gazette.


overwhelming throngs were in attendance
IS before. The congregation sang with
great effect the hymn:
before Jeh07ah's awful throne
nations bow with sacred i1Y;-
Know that the Lord IS COO alone
He can create and He Destroy"
After explaining appropriate passages
ofScriPture, Or Talmage took his text
from Genesis XII, Il: "And Plaroah said
unto Joseph: See, l have set thee over ell
the land Of Egypt" The ssubject Of the
s:rmon was the Prime Minister" Or.
Tamsge said:
You cannot keep good man down.
God mss deCreed for him certain elevs-
ton to which he must attain. lie will
bring him through though it cost Him
thousand worlds. There are men
CONSTANTLY II TROUBLE
lest hey shall not be appreciated. Every
msn comes IN the end to be valued al lust
wha. he is worth. How often you see
men turn out all their forces to crush one
msl or set Of men. How do they sue
coed; No better than did the government
that tried to crush Joseph, Scripture
character upon which we speak to-day.
Il would be an insult 10 suppose that YOU
were not all familiar with the life Of la-
sep1- how his Jealous brothers threw him
into the pit but, seeing caravan of
Arabian merchants moving along on their
C1mels with spices and gums that loaded
the sir with aroma, sold their brother to
these merchants, who carried him down
into Egypt how Joseph was sold
TO p5tirh5r, man OF influence and Of
ice now, by mis- integrity he raised him
self 70 hig1 position in the realm, uatil
under the false charge IF vile wretch he
was hurled into The panitentiary. how in
prison lie commanded respect and con
ftguCg; how hv the INTERPRETATION f
rlE-aod's dream be was freed and be
c2Ee The chief uen in government, the
Bismarck OF the nation; now in time Of
famine Joseph had the control Of store
house which be hal filled during the
seven years OF plenty; how when his
drOtleTs who had thrown him into the
DIT and sold him into captivity. spnIied
for corn, he sent them home with their
beasts borne down unaer the heft of the
corn sacks; how the sin against their
brother, which mad so long been hidden.
cane ont al last, snd WIS returned by the
brothers. forgiveness and kindness. an
HlusrlouS triumph OF
CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE.
Learn from this story in the first place,
that the world is compelled to honor
Christian character. P0tiphar was on'y q
MAJ OF the world, vet joseph rose in his
estimation untN ell the affairs Of the
grest house were committed to his charge.
From this sarvsEt no honOrs or con
. liencc were withheld. When joseph
was In PRISON he soon won the heart of
'ae Keeper, snd, though placed there for
being q sC0undrel, he soon convinced the
la-or nat he was an innocent snd trust
worthy mAn, and released from
close confinement, he became
general superintendent OF prison affairs
Wherever Joseph wss placed, whether
2seIvant in the house OK Pouphar or
prisoner in the Tententary, he became
tie a7st man everywhere aud is au Illus
Ga,Ion II the truth lay down, that the
world Is compelled TO honor Christian
character.
There ere those who aEsct 10 despise s /
religious fe. They speak IF it IS svs-
Ten u 9htea.tomy by which man is bled
q 81. bis courage and nobility They say
be mas d@neaucd himself They pretend
TO have TO more confidence in him sine.
1.s aversion tasn before his conversion /
bu. Ell that is hypocrisy. Il is imnos-i- /
a,e fig sHy mau not to admire and cen /
-iy "a Cari>tiGn who shows thai he las I
really 1eCsme child of God and Is Whist I
le prOteo ls 10 IL. You Cannot despisa T
as rCI daughter u The Lord God Al /
mighty. % course AaN-anG-lelf religious 1
character wins no appreciation. RedwsId, |
i1t alHG OF tha SaXons, after CeristisM I
Baptism hs5 J7.o affairs, one for the w0r-
snip Ut God ard the other for the Sscri- /
1-sui devils. You may 1sYc 3 Contenrt .
!or sGc5 men, for mere prgtension of H. .
-s,oa, bus when you behold the excel .
'tlcy # Jesus Christ come ont in She lie I
eloIe Of his disc pies, all that there Is
GOOD AND NOBLE
Il yo1r SOM rises up into admiration I.
though tnat Chr stlan be IS fer beneath (
!eo 'G estate IS the Egyptian slave OF /.
~aom we sTe Discussing, by an irrgYCca- /.
e 3w OF our nature poiphar and /
I12roa1 Will always es eem Joseph. /
l1ry .om when threatened with death /
gyL-a-N.s, the empress, sent word TO .
-Sf saying: $50 tell Ter thst | fear /
Lo,1irg bar sin" Such nobility Of char |
ac.er viii always be applauded. There /
vas something in Agrippa and Felix which /
-emacded their respect for Paul, the /
.52e. against government. l doubt not /
~,T would willingly have Yielded their .
y-..e ard dignity for the tbousandth part |
what true Eeroism which beamed in the |
Ce sid beat in the hesrt of the uncon- /
s-eria.e apostle. The infdeI and .
wording are compelled to honor in their .
-5a,lS though they may not eulog;ze /
n-,1 i1eiC lips, : Christian firm in perse- /